The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has detailed that Medicize an AQ-400 plane that he is going to move to the city of Amman, in Jordan, to Bring 13 sick Gazati children, as well as their relativesto be treated in different hospitals in Spain.
This was confirmed on Wednesday by the head of Defense in statements to the media after presiding over a tribute to the six Spanish paratroopers who died in an attack in Lebanon in 2007 at the ‘Prince’ base of Paracuellos del Jarama (Madrid). According to Robles, at the Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base, in the Community of Madrid, an AQ-400 is ending up, with the intention that Gazati children who require hospital treatment are Attended in Spanish Health.
Previously, the Executive has already brought sick children to Spain to be treated in Spanish hospitals. In July 2024, Defense sent a medicalized A400M plane to Cairo to bring 15 Palestinian minors injured or with serious health problems derived from the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. On those occasions, families had a Temporary stay visa for 90 -day humanitarian aidand stayed in a provisional resource, where they were able to rest before their transfer to their final destinations.
Air food
At the same time, Robles remembered that another AQ-400 plane that will be released this Thursday with 12 tons of food of the State Agency Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) to launch them in parachute on the Gaza Strip.
Spain, recalled the minister, has already made another parachute launch with food, and repeats it now because “the situation in Gaza is absolutely terrible” by the famine that its inhabitants are suffering from the terrestrial blockade of humanitarian aid. “The level of cruelty that is demonstrating (the prime minister of Israel, Benhamin) Netanyahu is absolutely unacceptable and I think The international community has to react. And Spain, again, apart from its recognition of Palestine, because we are firmly committed, “he added.
